This website has many short clips demonstrating effective teaching practices for improved literacy outcomes during the early years of schooling
Read/WriteThink is an amazing site, packed full of rich leanring ideas. Visit the Home page and use their search tool to find a learning topic e.g. Comics
Online story made on a wiki by teachers: This was a trial developed by year 4/6 students at a school in Geelong, Vicotria, Australia during the latter part of 2006. Cgildren loved and chose to work through it in thier own time out of school. Similarly this was the experience of a Year 5 class in Rotorua, NZ. See Christian's and Pick a Path Stories here which were contionued in Christmas holidays and into the following year. This occurred, despite the children no longer being in the original teacher's class.
From Teaching That Makes Sense comes the Writing Teachers Strategy Guide a free downloadable booklet that contains simple strategies, tips, organisers, examples and posters to support your learners as they write.
This website has many short clips demonstrating effective teaching practices for improved literacy outcomes during the early years of schooling
Literacy games and activities at ICT Games (all ages) Have a look at te interactive dictionaries. Great for your IWBs
Online story made on a wiki by teachers: This was a trial developed by year 4/6 students at a school in Geelong, Vicotria, Australia during the latter part of 2006. Cgildren loved and chose to work through it in thier own time out of school. Similarly this was the experience of a Year 5 class in Rotorua, NZ. See Christian's and Pick a Path Stories here which were contionued in Christmas holidays and into the following year. This occurred, despite the children no longer being in the original teacher's class.
Examples of children's work on Photostory - Photostory is an amazing audi/visual tool for PC users. Have you tried it. Check out the links for some great examples.
Stories and poems to read and interact with for juniors
Poems to read and discuss for older students
A bit of fun - urban folk stories for older students to discuss
Myths from around the world - for older students
A great UK site for literacy activities and ideas (all ages)
A great site for reading and games for juniors
Our own NZ site - great games and activities here
The BBC link to literacy activities - lots to sort through and bookmark the ones your students could use
NZ Journal notes for journals part 3 and 4
Great flash animations for phonics for juniors
ESOL reading strategies Interesting ways to use you IWB and more
Maori language activities
Great UK site with games and activities for primary
Great Welsh site with games and activities
Teachers TV A great wiki web site all about using Voice Thread for the classroom
Literacy activities and tools A virtual world gamewhere children create their characters and write a script for them
Fun spelling activity- words are created with letters made by images of buildings in Google Earth
Another spelling web site- Yr 5/6 class
Text organisers for writing
Story web site
Printable graphic organisers (for integrating thinking skills with literacy)
Google safe search for children
Example of a great classroom wiki web site
Schools Tube TV
Jane and the Dragon - a really fun NZ site for older students
Google for educators - find
Create Certificates To Acknolwedge & Celebrate Student Efforts